Fancy Fruit Cake Dessert

I made fruit cake using  Betty Crocker's chocolate cake mix as the base.It came out delicious as excitedly vouched by my family.I threw in a lot of dried fruits and a combination of nuts.I had made extra as I had planned to join some friends for a potluck but unfortunately had to cancel our get together due to unavoidable circumstances. Suddenly I was left with too much of cake.I was wondering what to do with the additional which was now neatly tucked away in an airtight container in the refrigerator.After  a few days wrecking my brains what to do, I decided to make use of it in a new dessert. Previously I  had made a  dessert using  crumbled cookies as the base of the pudding.This time I used the cake and topped  it with a  thick creamy custard. It was heavenly. Every bit was deliciously savored.

I used almost the same ingredients that I had used for my semolina custard pudding but instead of crumbled cookies I used  the cake.

I used the fruit cake as the base of my pudding

 

My son digging into the dessert.

Semolina Custard Pudding

This pudding is solely my creation.I have not borrowed any ideas from other recipes.My aim was to prepare a custard pudding but then  I decided to play around with some other ingredients too and thus emerged this delicious dish.

Ingredients

1 litre milk

1/4 cup slightly roasted semolina

½ cup sweened condensed milk

¾   cup custard powder-(mix into ¼ cup of water and make a thin paste)

Sugar according  to taste

1 tablespoon Orange zest

¼ cup fresh orange juice

A pinch of salt

1 tsp Vanilla essense

8 coconut  cookies ( or any of your favourite)

Method

Crumble the cookies coarsely and spread it evenly Into  a medium sized pudding dish. Pour the orange juice over it and keep aside.

In a pan add the milk, condensed milk, semolina ,sugar, salt and the custard  powder paste and bring to a boil stirring all the time.Reduce heat and keep stirring .Once it starts to thicken,add the vanilla essense and the orange zest and mix it well.Remove from heat and pour over the layered  cookie .Serve it at  room temperature  or  refrigerate if you prefer to eat it cool.